NEW YORK, June 21, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- PubSub, the essential tool for anyone tracking what people are saying about the topics they care about, today announced it is hosting a session on the FeedMesh initiative at Gnomedex 5.0, a conference for entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts looking to explore the latest trends in RSS, blogging, podcasting, BitTorrent, and media. FeedMesh, a common source for high-quality, shared and validated RSS feeds across the Internet, is expected to be a hot topic at this year's event, particularly in light of Yahoo's recent purchase of blo.gs, a blog directory service that provides blog updates to the FeedMesh.
A proponent of the FeedMesh initiative, PubSub is a free service that monitors more than 11 million Internet sources on users' behalf, notifying them instantly when things they care about are published in blogs, press releases, SEC filings, newsgroups, and other sources. PubSub's CTO and co-founder, Bob Wyman will host a birds-of-a-feather style session to discuss the FeedMesh initiative at 6:00 p.m. PDT on Friday, June 24 at this year's Gnomedex conference.
"It's extremely challenging for one aggregator alone to keep up with indexing and searching syndicated blogs and Web sites," said Bob Wyman, co-founder and CTO, PubSub Concepts. "Rather than competing on how many blogs they monitor, aggregators are now differentiating themselves with the quality of services they provide. Yahoo!'s purchase of Blo.gs and entry into the FeedMesh clearly demonstrates the advantage of cooperating to ensure that the task of discovering and updating blogs is shared among all parties."
Who: Bob Wyman, co-founder and CTO, PubSub Concepts
What: Bob Wyman will lead a discussion with other industry
luminaries about the potential for the FeedMesh initiative
and the benefits of a common source for high quality,
shared, and validated RSS feeds across the Internet
When: Friday, June 24, 2005 at 6:00 p.m. PDT.
Where: Seattle Marriott Waterfront, Seaport Room
2100 Alaskan Way
Seattle, Washington
Hotel phone: 206-443-5000
About the PubSub Service:
PubSub.com provides a free matching service that continuously reads more than 10 million blogs, more than 50,000 newsgroups, all SEC Edgar Filings, press releases from major wire services, earthquake data from the U.S. Geological Survey, and FAA airport delay information to instantly alert users whenever items of interest appear. This unique, real-time notification service is made possible by PubSub's proprietary "matching engine," which performs billions of matches of subscriber requests against newly-published items every day.
About PubSub Concepts, Inc.:
PubSub Concepts, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2002. The company develops Internet-scale Publish/Subscribe systems and plans a series of product releases designed to make prospective searching a vital element of the Internet experience. Visit www.pubsub.com for more information.